Bedstead-bracing



(No Model.)

J. T. C. JONES.

BBDSTAD BRAGING.

No.-543,21l.

Patented July' 23, 1895,

957575 @5a 6,5? I y 7ave7a0r kiff UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES THOMAS CRAYTON JONES, OF STARR, SOUTH CAROLINA.

BEDsTEAo-BRACIN'G.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,211, dated July23,1895.

l pplicatibn tiled February 19,1895. Serial No. 538,924. (Nomodel.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES THOMAS CRAY- roN JONES, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Starr, in the county of Anderson and State ofSouth Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBedstead- Bracing; and I do hereby declare the follow-Q ing to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention is a new bedstead-brace; and it consists in rods extendingAfrom the cornerposts to a central ring, with means for tightf ening thesame, and rods extending from the side rails to said central-ring, withmeans for tightening them, all of which are hereinafter described inthis specification, and the claim l ent that I deem it unnecessary todescribe it,

hereto attached.

All wooden bedsteads and iron ones, so far as my knowledge goes,loosenat the joints by wear and render the bedstead noisy, rickety, and thejoints may by such Wear aord the hiding-places for bugs,and the siderails are sprung laterally by the operation of the slats, and finallythe slats slip through and the occupants are dropped on the Iioor. Thepurpose of my invention is to avoid these inconveniences and annoyances.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 Y represents a longitudinalsectional elevation of a bedstead with my invention thereto attached.Fig. 2 is a plan view of my invention attached to the bedstead.

- My invention is described as follows: A rep resents the four cornerbed-posts.

B represents the side rails; C, the slats. I have only marked one of theslats, because to mark them all would disfigure the drawings, and theslats are not a part of the invention.

The invention is below the slats, and far enough below them so that theslats will not Y touch the wires, even when sprung.

a are eyef-screws rmly screwed into the corner-posts A.

b are eye-screws firmly screwedinto the*` side rails equidistant fromeaoh'end.

c are four rods, one end of which is hook-ed into the eyes of theeye-screws o, the other'.

ends of which areprovided with threads and pass through perforations inthe central ring D. d are nutswhich screw on the threaded ends of saidrods c and against the inner face of the said ring D.

e are rods, the outer ends of which arel and I will say that I do notconfine myself necessarily to eye-screws@ or nuts d, because any othersubstantial manner of securing and operating the said rods c Would,in myopinion, be covered by my invention. The same may be also said ofeye-nuts b, rods e, and buckle-nutf, the gist of my invention being acentral ring D, from which extend six rods, one to each corner of thebed-post and one to each side rail, with substantial and practical meansof tightening the same.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Let-ters Patent, is v In combination with a bedstead, substantiallyas shown and described, the eye screws a, and b, perforated central ringD; rods c; nuts d, rods e, and buckle nut f, substantially as shown anddescribed and for the purposes

